The Chinese Communist Party secretary for Shanghai, Chen Jining, welcomed Blinken partly in English and spoke of the importance of US businesses to the city. “Whether we choose cooperation or confrontation affects the well-being of both peoples, both countries and the future of humanity,” Chen told him. The country’s financial…

:Reddit said on Thursday it has fixed an issue that had left tens of thousands of users across the globe without access to the social media platform for more than half an hour. The company has deployed a fix and the platform is up and running again, it said in an update on its status page.The outage began around 12:30 p.m. ET and had affected nearly 70,000 users in the United States at its peak,…

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Pro-Palestinian protests have continued at major US universities, as students express outrage at the mounting death toll in Israel’s war in Gaza. Students are calling for universities to separate themselves from firms advancing Israel’s military efforts, and in some cases, from Israel itself. Meanwhile, in Gaza, Israel said it is…

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SEOUL :The South Korean economy grew at the fastest pace in more than two years in the first quarter beating all estimates with a pick-up in domestic consumption and robust exports, but the market questioned if the recovery was sustainable.Gross domestic product (GDP) for the January-March quarter was 1.3 per…

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